Letter: Assessors, don’t deprive Somerset of CPA funding

Somerset assessors, take note: Somerset organizations, businesses and citizens have stepped up to volunteer to clean up areas and to serve on various commissions, committees and boards.

Somerset assessors, take note: Somerset organizations, businesses and citizens have stepped up to volunteer to clean up areas and to serve on various commissions, committees and boards.

The police, firefighters, highway departments, etc. have taken severe cuts.

Selectmen have lowered business owners’ taxes and increased homeowners’ taxes to possibly bring more business into town. Our magnificent new high school will bring people into town.

Towns and cities around us are getting thousands of dollars in Community Preservation Act money to make improvements and buy up land.

The Massachusetts House thinks the CPA program is so important that they have proposed to include another $25 million in its budget for towns and cities to share.

Our real estate taxes are going up considerably higher for a couple of reasons that can’t be helped. I don’t think our homeowners would mind pitching in another only $5 or $6 a quarter so we could get about $200,000 to $300,000 a year to do things in town that we can’t afford during the present time. We did vote for CPA!

Somerset assessors, make it happen. Let Somerset get its share of this money.